Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

[Postbus22]

Better than Phineas and Ferb shit

[jdeinak]

Kk

[TheKenny951]

better then Justin Bieber's videos :P :D

[Kipperslap101]

This is J. Stuart Blacktons animation to show that cheating in animation can be done way back then. He proves it can be done both ways. With chalk, but you can see the glass to make things easier when starting a new sketch, but with the clown from roughly 2 mins to 2 mins 40 its been cut out and pivoted on limbs. He then proves that he "wasn't cheating" by rubbing the clown out at 2:42. :)

[jtv57]

2:25- You can clearly see a hand.

[laura20022004]

just amazing this is better then watching icarly

[LFWISKOOLreturns]

still better than wall-e

[JanuaryBlack1996]

who would have thought 105 years later people would be on something called the internet watching this animation. and still be amazed by it. btw will u all stop with the comments abt how "today our animation sucks blah blah" gosh we get it. stop posting the same comments.

[CuteKittenTommy]

I agree with KingKael00 - today`s cartoon`s the same thing over and over again - badlooking super heroes who save the day. The old classics like Tom and Jerry are the best but people don`t get it. Most of them just do it for the money.

[Moonshine3991]

This is the first animated cartoon ever made, ain't it?

Truely amazing! =D

[MBGamingLegends]

these days we have references and inspirations to make cartoons but this guy had nothing to look back on he had to come up with the concept of making hand drawn objects move and he did that on his own

[starzus]

Whether a its a new facsimilie of old -  or just old, I JUST LOVE IT

[pesarios]

Great!

[xxUGLYMOLLYxx]

This is what true love looks like.

[animationfreakshow]

2.30



[kmelalzate]

Subliminal $ 00:59

[taikikennai]

GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

すげええええええええええええええええええええええええええええ­ええええよ

[LemonatoR32]

This guy is total pro animator, especially since this was a hundred years ago :P

[xcracker90]

BRAVO!!!

[karlosx8]

lol i saw his arm in the frames like loads :L:L

[albinbeqiri]

This Is The First Caroon Ever And It Is Way Better Than Out Of Jimmys Head Or Chop Suky Chuks ...

[Smurfxpower18]

horrible.

[Dryleafswarrior]

@Smurfxpower18 This was the first EVER animation ever on tv! That means no internet to see how to animate, no other animators to study from, and all that stuff! This was made in 1906! Besides, I bet you can't make an animation any better than half of this!

[DudeAwesome1343]

INCREDIBLE ANIMATION!!! The motion is so smooth. Considering this is the turn of the century, I am amazed by the overall feel.

[kennyk3n]

humor was a lot simpler back then

[yugiohGX5D]

is this the first cartoon ??

[SiteSamz]

ya i looked it up online im doing a paper on it

[Maaarteh]

worlds first stop-motion :)

[nielsje000]

great video, btw: on 2:25 you see the arm of the drawer

[JacksonHugh]

You can also see his arm @ 2:41

°~°`

[abcpooponme]

Congrats. now someone will do a 1 year research on if this is true

[KingKael00]

Does anybody agree.. I would happily watch this animation all day but i would hate to have to watch all this new computer generated animation crap that is on the childrens television.. I used to love the old cartoons - Dexters labarotory, Power puff girls and etc. but these new ones just look bad.. Johnny test? What the Hell is this crap. Looney toons was the stuff, they were real cartoon characters - could never kill bugs or wiley - i would happily kill off these new abominations. Im 13 BTW!

[alexapao01]

That makes 2 of us!

[Hboycey]

You can't beat vintage

[karlosx8]

@KingKael00 agreed. i mena this modern shit. like the american ben 10 humor? its the sort of stuff kids get bullied for copying. i mean the humor makes me curl up. just wierd and tasteless.

[CHURCHiLLxx]

@KingKael00 you have very good taste! lol xD I'm 19 and those are the cartoons I loved as a kid

[klimundas1]

@KingKael00 Bugs bunny all the way

[RoachFingers]

@KingKael00 I agree, Johnny Test is made in Adobe Flash, a program for animation, mostly used for fun animations on the web or web design, same for Total Drama Action/Island.. I hate both of them for bad story, and bad animation. I've seen people animate better on Flash then the people who made those two shows.

[rhinoceros9]

@KingKael00 flapjack and adventure time

[theguybelowmefarted]

@KingKael00 Johnny Test was made in like 2004 but it was first on Kid's WB then Cartoon Network took it so don't say that Johhny Test is "new crap"

[xreddragonx]

@theguybelowmefarted Yeaa, according to Wiki this cartoon you speak of premiered in Sept. 2005. The cartoon on this page is from 1906. You're gonna have the gall to claim that a 2005 cartoon isn't "new"? It was ridiculous enough that kingkael was citing shit from 1999 like Dexter's Lab/Powerpuff as an example of "classics", lol. Get some perspective.

[theguybelowmefarted]

@xreddragonx I'm pretty sure the guy that posted that comment didn't know Johnny Test was first on Kid's WB and thought it was brand new since it premiered on CN.

[ohsnapLaShap]

@xreddragonx  Dexter's Lab is better than Johnny Test. There.

[RayPointer]

@KingKael00 There are basically two reasons why the new cartoons do not hold up. The first is the creators lack the life experience and imagination of the artists of the past. They lack the skills and knowledge of the old animators. The second is that the digtial medium does not display stop motion works in the same manner as film, and the nature of digital is too hard edged combined with the angular designs that make for ugly images. But in the right hands, new works can be better.

[nopancakemix]

@RayPointer "the creators lack the life experience and imagination of the artists of the past" that's totally true, I know ALL of the creators - just like you

[RayPointer]

@nopancakemix Good for you. But I don't think you 'knew" or met one of them like I did. But it's good that you are aware of these things.

[nopancakemix]

@RayPointer you met "one of them" and made an assumption about all of them? gg

[RayPointer]

@nopancakemix "Assumption" about all of them"? Sorry, but you are not clear about that statement. Regardless, at least I have met some of the figures in animation. Have you? Aside from that, there is no need to debate this issue with me. I happen to be an animator and producer. That said, let's appreciate . Blackton's pioneering effort and leave it at that.

[Milkman26789Z]

@KingKael00 Well, I'm 12 and I agree. I plan to be a better animator than Walt Disney. You think that's hard to believe? I'm actually one of the few kids now, that can do flud animation ON PAPER.

[RavenclawEspioXV]

@Milkman26789Z It wouldn't be very hard to become a better, more qualified animator than Walt Disney. This is because, for the most part, Walt never actually did any animation himself. No, he quit animating back in 1923 or so when his Disney Brothers studio (I think) started to take off. After that, he got other people to do all that kind of work for him.

Anyway, I find it very interesting that you claim to animate fluently. It would've taken a great deal of skill. Kudos.

[Milkman26789Z]

@RavenclawEspioXV Thanks and I do know that. I also know that Walt Disney didn't even create Mickey Mouse. It was Ub Iwerks. I also know that Disney has Nine Men. Some being Ub Iwerks and Frank Thomas. I also know that Walt didn't do SHIT. He didn't animate, design characters, write, direct and take ANY part in his work or movies.

[RavenclawEspioXV]

@Milkman26789Z Precisely, you are indeed accurate. The only thing I have to correct is that Ub Iwerks was not one of Disney's Nine Old Men. The Nine Old Men started working for Walt sometime in the 1930s and (I think) late 1920s. Ub Iwerks, however, worked with Walt when they were just beginning in the early 20s, and met at Pesmen-Rubin, an art studio. By the time the Nine Old Men came on the scene, Ub had temporarily left to start his own studio.

[Milkman26789Z]

@RavenclawEspioXV That is true though you are missing that Ub was angry because he wasn't getting enough credit. That's why he left. Then, sometime in the late 30's, he and Disney made up and Ub worked for him alot.

[RavenclawEspioXV]

@Milkman26789Z Again true. I didn't have enough room to fit that in on the last comment. But, yes. Ub did return to work with Walt in the late 30s when his studio began to fail. The thing he didn't take into account when he split from Disney before (which he did quite understandably, no doubt) was that he didn't have the "give 'em what they want" knack that Walt had when it came to telling stories. Ub was more zany and abstract, an sadly, this proved to be counterproductive for business.

[Milkman26789Z]

@RavenclawEspioXV That is true. In fact, Ub has a banned cartoon about a black kid running around in the forest. Me being black, I don't find it offence but, I find it funny. There's also a banned Mickey Mouse cartoon where Mickey and the gang performed in black face. They were doing "Uncle Tom's Cabin", I believe. It was also animated by Ub. This also leads me to believe that Ub was ether a rasict (Less likely) or was to go as fair as he needed for comedy.

[RavenclawEspioXV]

@Milkman26789Z Sadly, the fact that those cartoons of his were banned doesn't surprise me. Everybody knows that racism back then was still very severe, and if anybody did anything to include those of another ethnic background, specifically African Americans, they would surely be censored. The fact that Ub (and I suppose from your example, Walt) added some African American people in their cartoons proves that they were ahead of their time, much like Benny Goodman.

[Milkman26789Z]

@RavenclawEspioXV That is sad. Old cartoons get banned but crap like Family Guy offends African-American in every episode. >.<

[RavenclawEspioXV]

@Milkman26789Z Yeah, I know. It's completely ignoramus.

[HCShannon]

@Milkman26789Z and everyone else too, it's the Don Rickles rule!

[jebjeb201]

@KingKael00 you can blame hanna-barbera for crappy animation. They started releasing cheap animation by removing frames and using cheap tricks. It's a shame that most beautiful fluid animations are not cost effective so it's unlikely beyond somebodies hobby or for their portfolio that you will see anything with passion. It's good that you are so young and want to see something better. Maybe it can be a personal goal of yours to create something for your generation.

[Milkman26789Z]

@jebjeb201 THANK YOU! Someone who KNOWS!

[WalzelCody]

@KingKael00 I am an animation student, and I completely agree with your analysis, and I thought animation was in the toilet for a while as well. However, after learning the history of animation, I see that animation greatness seems to come in waves, with many dark ages in between. This isn't the first dark age, and it won't be the last, but animation is due for a positive comeback any day now.

[MrBooboopop]

@KingKael00 you mean you hate the story now, its in the story, not the art, if you were to really admire animation. now if u said that, then I'd agree.

[KingKael00]

@MrBooboopop your right that the stories arent stimulating enough to keep my attention but i can still watch a cartoon without taking into account that i dont like the story, im more into think that the artwork has taken a steep reduction in quality in recent years, simply for quantity and resale, if you take into account the whole genre of 'childrens' cartoons and now looking at comic books you can see the decline there too, taking into example the 'Beano' and much more the 'Dandy' in britain

[xreddragonx]

@KingKael00 Take your whining elsewhere. This video isn't about "new cartoons" or your hatred of them.

[KingKael00]

@xreddragonx FUCK YOU, YOU CHEEKY BASTARD WANKER, NOONE GIVES A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK, THIS WAS POSTED A YEAR AGO... FUCK OFF

[JTBCP]

@KingKael00

This is obviously one of the most significant animations ever made, but any of these new "abominations" are infinitely more entertaining than this. This has no story. I guarantee you would not be able to watch this for a whole day without putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger.

[TheKenny951]

@KingKael00 Im 16 and I still watch animations :D

[ClinicalAttacked]

It was the first animated film on celluloid but not the first animation to be projected on screen.

The first ones were made around 1892-1893 in France and Germany and featured color drawings on a semi-transparent paper fitted into a projector similar to a celluloid one and projected in 5-10 frames per second.

[blenderfroggy]

At 1:43, a scene is omitted from this historical classic. Would the poster care to share what it was for posterity's sake?

[WithASideOfFries]

Kinda makes you think of when you were a kid...

Kidding. If you could remember this you would be dead.

Great video, a great mark in history

[babaoriley8]

haha

yeah man definitely a giant leap or man.

[jundzis]

i can only imagine how people back then laughed their asses off while watching this

[TheKenny951]

@jundzis xD

[vaetten]

Great video (:

[inkosurf]

WTF??

[KingKael00]

@inkosurf it was ones of the first ever animation on celluloid. Its a great mark in the history of animation.

[inkosurf]

@KingKael00 .. yes, sorry, it was fun for me when a i wrote that... it's great to have this material on internet this days : )

[clubpenguin1212100]

???????????

[jeronholmes]

aww traditional animation

[TKGB2006]

Wow. The ones that move look like a flash animation. That's pretty wicked.

[beckyzee]

the first ever was the enchanted drawing. i think, im confused because im doing a project and i am not sure why everyone is saying this was the first!

[JourneyTraveler]

Because this is actually the first time that images were shown to move like they do in cel animation. Never before had drawings moved and reacted on their own. It was an advancement of stop motion, which generally uses live objects that are moved between frames. So instead of using physical objects, these chalk drawings were used instead.

enchanted drawing wasn't quite the same, though it can be seen as the step in between the previous method and new cel animation. This one's still the first.

[sanan143]

but... it was made in ms powerpoint

[secretsexlife]

it is the first cartoon in the world

[chizwillyz]

i think IMDB is wrong. this was just one of the earliest surviving American animated films. yeah its from 1906 by J. Stuart Blacktons company "vitagraph" Its pretty sweet stop motion for back in the day tho!

[Yssaloveshem]

UHUM..

[stubbers123]

think imdb meant it was the first of its kind on a standard picture film

[stubbers123]

yeh mate was a chalk board, awesome eh! I had to do an essay in college about animation as its what i do, but yeh your right man its one of the earliest animations J.Stuart Blackton 1900's think 1906 or sumtin

[lemaro1977]

According to IMDB, this is considered the first aimation movie ever in history.

[NeolightAnon]

There were quite a few endeavors before this, the earliest I know of being The Enchanted Drawing by James Stuart Blackton right in 1900.

[cartoonlover2326]

I wouldn't say it was the first ever. Emile Reynaurd invented the Theater Optique, which would project hundreds of drawings.

[EFFANDJEFF]

You are right. The earliest moving pictures were not photographs, so they were all animations of a sort - even the eariest phenakistoscope.

This though, is the earliest example of an animated film.

[ecuanox]

how did they manage to not show the hands drawing? .. is one sheet at the time?? but it looks like a chalk board??

[ElBlocko]

I believe this was achieved by using black ink on a white sheet, making it into a negative, then reversing the negative to make it seem like white chalk on a board.

[RayPointer]

This was too early on in development to be that sophisicated. This techinque was realized two years later by Emil Cohl. It appears that Blackton worked on a translucent surface using a white grease crayon since the lines are too heavy and defined to have been chalk on a blackboard.

[jonnycakes101]

do a search on Stop Motion Video.....it's been around forever

[arawa1982]

its direct manipulation animation...

Direct manipulation is a simplified variation of graphic animation which involves the frame-by-frame altering (erasing or adding to) a single drawing or graphic image, while taking a frame of film or video as each small change is made, as close as the stop motion process gets to simply animating a series of drawings, but without actually changing to completely separate drawings or graphics for each frame of film.

[Lamnont]

It looks to me like like they are using cutouts on some bits, and chalk boards on others.

[vykintask]

Yep it's a combination of chalk and cutouts

[CanadienDestroyer]

I am truly amazed here, this film was made way back in the pre-Hollywood days yet it shows a level of effort that is WAY ahead of it's time. Can you imagine being the animator erasing and re-drawing every bit of the character to achieve animation?

This is a marvel of filmmaking.

[ladygish]

@CanadienDestroyer Actually, if you look closely you'll see the clown is a paper cut out. I didn't notice it the first time through but you can see that he isn't entirely flat. When the clown is erased, all but the leg and arm (the two parts that move) are taken off and drawn in chalk. It's still a really impressive piece of work. :)

[ElBlocko]

Eh, looks like Blackton goofed at 2:25 when his arm is in the frame. Still a masterpiece, though!

[alimax32]

omg! this was such a old film! but it was kinda funny how the faces acted

[shuckslbj]

it boggles the mind

[spencesucks]

Wonderful.

[nadinemeinders]

how do i download this for my powerpoint presentation??

[Pokedude45]

free utube to ipod converter converts it to mp4 format

[LukeSchneider77]

go to wikipedia and search j stuart blackton and download the video file

[hehehehe7714]

first cartoon

[FlotsamX]

Second, technically. Still, great.

[shlampman]

Ah, memories of my college animation class.

[taryen]

thanks for putting this on here!! i need this for a school report. hope i get an A!

[potterpuppetgrls]

wow that was... uh.... weird?

[RememberRox]

Oh i see...I wonder though why they sometimes say fantasmagorie was the first animated cartoon..Oh well. Thank you :)

[kathryn807]

It is the first animated cartooon

[kathryn807]

no, Fantasmagorie was the first. It sais in wikipedia and Emile's books and the I went to europe and visited his museum he created the first animated cartoon in the world.

[RememberRox]

ive heard different stories, on some sites it says "fantasmagorie" was the first cartoon...and on some sites it says this one was the first cartoon..Im doing an essay on this so im kinda confused what i should even write..

[RayPointer]

The actual first "animated" cartoon as we know them was FANTASMAGORIE (1908) by Emil Cohl. These milestones of the centennial of animation are contained in BEFORE WALT, distributed by Inkwell Images.

[xgirlfiendx]

Wooooo

[rootnflaskr]

i cant draw or make filmz so i might be kidding when i say...look down...so please dont cry to me unless u really need to

[rootnflaskr]

that lookz so easy

[littlescholar]

Great film. Looks like it was very hard work. Funny how he accidently captures his hand or shou

lder in the shot. Guess they had no way of monitoring and correcting these mistakes. Or maybe they were intentional

[TheAnimationEmpire]

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[PHRONESISvsAKRASIA]

Very cool: thanks for uploading.

[dxxs0000]

new hollywood special effect!

[ElBlocko]

Ah, the wonders of stop-motion.

[kingcorvette427]

that mustve taken 4 everrrrr

[joshjrmilne]

it was not the first cartonn trust me i have degree in animation

[smalin]

What is the first cartoon?

[beejman013]

this is considered the first one

The Enchanted Drawing was made a few years earlier, but wasn't really a cartoon.

[smalin]

Do you think the Enchanted Drawing is what joshjrmilne was referring to?

[KapakaOo]

It is the first Cartoon

[Vampireheart08]

yeah aint teh first ever animation the phenakistoscope(to this day I stil cant pronounce that) and the zoetrope in the 19th centuray.

[takedowned]

omg,this is incredible,even though it`s so old it`s so good!

[pietruski]

nice videos. my friend can make better ones thou, all u need is chalk. and a camera.

[bcmummy]

Actually, this was one of the first cartoons ever made, in 1906 says the video poster.

It's amusing to see this old video! Someone should dub it :D

[MARKASTEPHENS]

amazing

[mikeleonvalentine]

this is the first filmed animated short. i love you tube to find this kind of stuff :D

[nerdska]

oh my god. What ignorant comments. This animation was done by J. Stuart Blackton, possibly one of the first to use stop-motion and hand drawn animation in America... His first copyrighted work dated back to 1900.

[greekdeva7]

that was cute. nice video.

[hanahfan]

that is dumb and lame

[carpetbunnies]

that was cool

[rattman0408029366]

Wow. That's great. It's so cool.

[martinf598]

Wow 101 years now. Awsome.

[AssDakaNintyBoy]

Awesome!!

[sk8r1sd0p3]

OK..TALENT..WEIRD TALENT.

[bigboi2929]

Stupidly awesome. This is amazing.

[bigboi2929]

This is stupid.

[eggman913]

wow - one of the first animations - cool!

[chichan039]

nice

[zeroskate101]

entertaning

[DTanza]

5 starts and a fave for this vid.

[LoveTHYconan]

again, thank you so much for posting this!

[inkerman]

And what does Windsor McCay have to say about all this?

[KidHill]

Here's to another 100 years of animation!

[gagaman]

Happy 100th birthday animation!

[DavidRokon]

Oldschool.